1,510 Customer Reviews over 151 pages
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- Bedford
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-09-07
- Comments
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Took up their Fibre76 offer which was the cheapest at the time from a more trusted provider.
Handover from BT went as planned and was up and running by 5pm of stated day, with speeds comparable to BT.
Since then connection has been reliable and consistent, save for some disruption during road resurfacing in the area.
Following BT work in the area, am not receiving a downstream speed of 72Mbit! (so looks like it's now fibre to the cabinet).
Only frustrations have been an inability to initiate a line check after basic verification (as I could with Virgin & BT), and a very basic modem with limited functionality (doesn't support IPv6 or more advanced DHCP/DNS setup).
Overall, considering cost, speed & reliability would happily recommend them for most.
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- Bolton
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-09-07
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I contacted Vodafone customer service over an issue concerning unauthorised data usage on my mobile wifi device.
I had recently changed my package which had always had a data cap. I was unaware that the new package was no longer capped. Unfortunately a subsequent bill showed excessive data usage which of course I was charged for.
After my first conversation to discuss the situation the agent advised that the company understood the problem and would find a solution, and that I would get a call from the "back-up team" within 2 hours. The call never came and when I rang again the following day I spoke to a different operative who insisted the bills had to be pad in full and continually referred me to online or via-app notifications and conditions which would have alerted me to the situation.
He also certainly lied when he said attempts had been made to call me as I had sat by the phone for 3 hours after the first conversation.
I was finally offered £10 compensation against charges of hundreds of pounds.
Shocking and appalling treatment of a long-standing customer!
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- East Midlands
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-09-06
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Swapped over to Vodafone Superfast 1 from EE Broadband yesterday. I didn't even have to tell EE i was leaving as Vodafone sorted everything out.
I didn't realise just how slow my old EE connection was until now. Now I can download On Demand programmes on Sky and be watching them within a minute instead of an hour.
I haven't rated the Customer Service as it's early days and I haven't had a reason to contact them.
So far I am very impressed and glad I made the change.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-09-03
- Comments
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Bad customer service, very bad
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- Perth
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-09-01
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rubbish. my broadband has been contractrd for 15Mbps download but very very often I don't even have 5Mbps!! very unstable. sure I got 25%off my bill for that but so what I'm not able to watch any movie on line! I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT!!!
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- Harrow
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-31
- Comments
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The 2018 Aug/Sep Vodafone Land Line+Broadband offer: Back to stone age!!!
Comes with NO call allowance for land or mobile included. So you pay for calls or ADD £8.00 per month.
If you want international package added, its maximum 300mins (for £5 extra per month) only - cannot even pay more to get more mins.
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- Rochdale
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-30
- Comments
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Before you consider joining Vodafone please read this!
My mum has been a loyal customer of Vodafone for 17 years. She has renewed a contract every two years and when I was 11 bought me my first mobile, a pay as you go with Vodafone. These phones eventually graduated onto contracts with mobiles as part of the payment plan. My Mum has degenerative spinal disease so cannot work and is tremendous amounts of pain every day. As I got older and started going out more both me and Mum decided that we needed reliable phones so that if I went out and Mum had a fall she could easily reach me. They are essential as I am now her full-time carer.
In January 2016 the contract was renewed and we got shiny new Samsung galaxy S6 edges! As Mum was a loyal customer and had been with Vodafone for a long time she received a discount on the plan, the total for both phones was £43.52 a month. This discount was supposed to remain in place for the 2-year contract. In other words, up until January of this year.
In November of 2016 the direct debit got cancelled by the bank, possibly due to lack of funds as Mum is disabled and cannot work. Normally if you do not pay your bill Vodafone restrict your service, yes? In our case they didn’t. From November of 2016 up until April of 2018 no payments were made and our service wasn’t restricted. We had no reason to doubt that the bill wasn’t going out as the phones never got restricted. Vodafone never sent a text, letter, email or even made a phone call to notify us that the bill was adding up.
In addition to this the line rental increased from £43.52 for both lines to £43.50 for each line, £87 a month in total. Unfortunately, I have no idea when this was changed as Vodafone’s online billing records only go back 12 months, however in August of 2017 this change had already been made. Again, Vodafone failed to inform us of this. When we finally discovered this in the April of this year, the bill was around the £900 mark.
My mum rang up to find out why this had happened and why Vodafone hadn’t notified us of the failure of billing. She was instantly blamed by Vodafone for not paying the bill and told that it was her fault. Our lines were also restricted. It was finally agreed after many hours of fighting that we would keep our phones and pay £45 a month. £14.25 per line rental totalling £28.50 a month. This is bringing the bill down by a whopping £16.50 a month. We are also now on SIM only contracts and with two and a half year old phones that are beginning to break down.
After a lot of arguing we were finally put through Customer Relations and began speaking with a lady named Sheetal. She has since agreed that the discount was removed prematurely and has refunded us that money, £171 (she claimed it added up to), however I cannot find a refund of this amount on the account anywhere, instead one £130 in March (which is before we even found out about the bill) and one for £66 in May. When I asked Sheetal if she had compared the data usage of our phones against the months where there was no payments made she said she didn’t have the statements and that it would take 48-72 hours to get them and that she would ring us back on the Saturday. That was a week an’ half ago. We are still waiting for a return call from her.
As of the 17th of August 2018 the bill is £707.59.
Despite Mum paying the agreed amount of £45 a month we have had our mobile service frequently restricted. This happens at least twice a month. It has also happened while I’ve been out and heartbreakingly my mum had a fall, which in itself is not that uncommon, and normally she can reach me but since Vodafone had restricted our service she couldn’t call anyone and was stuck on the floor where she had fallen for over two hours. This left her in agony for several days and made me feel extremely guilty. I have since stopped going out in case it happens again.
Two days ago, our service was again restricted despite the payment being made and again we rang up and had an argument with customer relations. Eventually our lines were reconnected and we were told we would receive a call from Sheetal today (30/8/18.) Instead we got a phone call from a man called Asif Shekh. He asked for Mum to pay the bill of over a three month payment plan, £200+ a month (forgive me for not working it out.)
When Mum tried to explain what the she was disabled and that she would never be able to pay over three months he abruptly cut her off and very rudely said ‘Yes, I know that and your daughter helps you. I’ve read the notes.’ If he had read the notes, then he must have read that £45 is all we can afford a month. Why after reading that did he ask for a three month payment plan? When she explained again that she couldn’t pay that much and that £45 is all she can afford he threatened her with our phone numbers being deleted and being taken to court. This left my mum in tears fearing bailiffs. We are now waiting for Sheetal to ring tomorrow (hopefully.)
Ultimately my argument with Vodafone is that they will not admit they made a mistake in failing to either restrict our lines when the bill stopped going through or send out a letter, make a phone call or send a text to inform us. It isn’t about the bill anymore, I just wish they would admit they were wrong and take ownership of the suffering they are putting my mum through.
My advice to any potential Vodafone customer is to run to another company as fast as humanly possible. As if this is how they treat loyal customers I can only dread to think of how they would treat new customers.
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- Location
- Newbury
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-29
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AVOID. Since we swapped to Vodafone weve had no email for 2 months and awful drop outs on both wifi and internet. 2 Months of phoning Customer service being promised call backs that never happened and then being told theres nothing wrong with the speed so we have to suc it up. Well my mobile is with Vodafone and as soon as that contracts up ...guess?
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- Stockport
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-28
- Comments
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I found it shockingly difficult to speak to anyone who knows what's in the package I signed up for. Everyone I've spoken to about an item which didn't arrive in the post fobs me off to a different department, then i'm put on hold for 10mins in between each question. eventually they explain I have to wait 10 working days. Just another way to stop me trying to resolve the problem for a while.
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- Grimsby
- Reviewing
- Vodafone
- Date
- 2018-08-28
- Comments
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I would recommend vodafone to anyone who fancies living without internet for two months. If not, then avoid at all costs. I wish I could comment on the speed but we are still currently waiting for an engineer to pay us a visit. Our first scheduled visit around the start of July had to be cancelled. However, when my partner tried to cancel it he was told that he couldn’t. When the engineer arrived to find that no one was in he called my partner and shouted abuse at him down the phone. Vodafone then rescheduled our appointment for two weeks time. The engineer did not turn up. When we contacted vodafone they had no idea why the engineer didn’t turn up and said they would call in a few days with information. Eventually we had to call them as they had forgotten to call us back. They rescheduled AGAIN for two weeks time on the 1st of August. During our wait, a member of the vodafone team accessed my partners personal details and messaged him on whatsapp which was completely inappropriate. The engineer failed to visit again and when we contacted vodafone, like the last time, they said they would contact us in a few days. Again, they did not. When my partner called they blamed OpenReach and the best they could do is reschedule for the 21st of August. They’ve tried to win us over with a free gift but just like the engineers, it probably won’t turn up either. Vodafone are completely unreliable and from what i’ve read, the wifi isn’t that great either. AVOID!
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